Tarek barely had a chance to respond before Holly took off running. "Oka...ah-?" he yelped before he struggled to follow after her. The girl could run fast. He almost wanted to stop and admire that fleeing form, to properly appreciate how graceful that body worked. But no time for that. He stumbled over a tree root and went crashing through a bush with far less poise than Holly flitted through it.

He could just barely see her tail disappearing into a bush now and Tarek almost lost her. He chided himself though, reminding his eyes that they may not have known the forest as well as a faun, but well enough for this. With that in mind, he followed the noise of hooves just a little further, calling out to his companion just in case. "Holly? By the gods, my legs do not go that fast!" he whined. "Where did you go?" By now, she seemed to have stopped running and the forest animals fell back into their routines, leaving him lost. In reality though, he stood just on the other side of the bushes from Holly.